A 29-year-old Manhattan man who was struck and killed over the weekend by a hit-and-run driver was identified yesterday as Patrick Sinclair-Hale, a Columbia Business School graduate student.

Hale, a native of NashVille, Tennessee, was crossing East Houston near Orchard Street on Saturday when a 1997 Mercedes convertible plowed into him.

Police said the car, which had a damaged front end, was found abandoned a few blocks away on Mott and Prince streets. Police have identified a Queens man as the owner of the car, but did not say who was driving.

Hale graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville in 1992 and moved to Manhattan a year later to pursue a master’s degree.